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Conformity and deviance

1.
Conformity and
Deviance

2.
Conformity
• behavior in accordance with socially accepted
conventions or standards
• The anticipated behavior to follow.
• is the desire to go along with the norms of a
group of people, so you will be accepted as an
in-group person (and not rejected as an out-
group undesirable person).

3.
Deviance
• departing from usual
or accepted
standards, especially
in social or sexual
behavior.
• A behavior that
violates expected
rules and norms

4.
Variety of Deviance
“What is deviant to one group may not be
considered deviant to another.”

5.
1. The study of why people violates laws
or norms
2. The study of how society reacts to this
violations

6.
• was an Italian
criminologist and
physician, founder
of the Italian
School of
Positivist
Criminology, often
referred to as the
father of
criminology

7.
• Theory of anthropological
criminology essentially stated that
criminality was inherited, and that
someone "born criminal" could be
identified by physical (congenital)
defects, which confirmed a criminal
as savage or atavistic.

8.
criminals had :
• less sensibility to pain and touch;
• more acute sight;
• a lack of moral sense, including an
absence of remorse;
• more vanity,
• impulsiveness,
• vindictiveness, and cruelty; and other
manifestations, such as a special
criminal argot and the excessive use of
tattooing.

9.
Deviance and the Social
Paradigms Basic
Assumptions
Basis of
Interpretation
Structural
Functionalism
Deviance
promotes
unity, serves
as a moral
compass, and
provides
opportunities
where there
are none.
Deviance
performs
important
functions in
the overall
operations of
society

10.
Paradigms Basic
Assumptions
Basis of
Interpretation
Historical
Conflict
Deviance is a
result of
unequal
distribution of
social
desirables and
life chances.
Is a form of
civic action. It
aims to rectify
the unfair and
unjust
syndromes of
social
inequality.

11.
Paradigms Basic
Assumptions
Basis of
Interpretation
Critical
Interpretivi
sm
Is a result of the
exercise of
power. Symbols
and ideas are
manipulated by
powerful people
in the society in
order to protect
their economic
and political
interest
We are helping
these entities
maintain their
privileged
positions in
society

23.
• explains why people's behavior clashes
with social norms.
• holds that deviance is not inherent to an
act, but instead focuses on the tendency
of majorities to negatively label minorities
or those seen as deviant from standard
cultural norms.

24.
• Labeling theory holds that deviance is not
inherent to an act, but instead the result of
the externally-imposed label of "deviant".
• Labeling theory takes the view that
people become criminals when labeled as
such and when they accept the label as a
personal identity.

26.
-developed by Travis Hirschi
-according to this theory, people care about
what others think of them and conform to
social expectations because their
attachments to others and what others
expect of them

27.
• -this theory also suggests that most
people probably feel some impulse
towards deviant behavior at some time,
but their attachment to social norms
prevents them from actually participating
in deviant behavior.